Ariana Grande has a whole new era—or should we say, it has her? Her excellent new Eternal Sunshine is a bold personal statement, with her most inventive, pained, reflective songs. “It’s kind of a concept album,” the pop queen said in February. “‘Cause it’s all different heightened pieces of the same story, of the same experience.” So no wonder she’s taking inspiration from the crazy boys who invented the concept album: The Beatles. In a NYC playback session for Eternal Sunshine, the pop queen revealed that...
- 3/13/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
In all honesty, the films of 2023 should take a backseat to the images we are seeing every day in Gaza, where journalists and average citizens have been recording and documenting a daily assault on their homes and livelihoods by the Idf. Whatever fakery we watched and enjoyed in the cinema this year should always be kept in perspective in importance with images that are real and actually happening right now. The Palestinians who have documented these important images have been targeted and killed with intent and purpose to silence what their photos and videos are showing and saying.
List of journalists who have been killed.
The below is of lesser note:
Best First Watches:
Angel’s Egg La belle noiseuse Centipede Horror Charley Varrick Coffy Crimson Gold...
In all honesty, the films of 2023 should take a backseat to the images we are seeing every day in Gaza, where journalists and average citizens have been recording and documenting a daily assault on their homes and livelihoods by the Idf. Whatever fakery we watched and enjoyed in the cinema this year should always be kept in perspective in importance with images that are real and actually happening right now. The Palestinians who have documented these important images have been targeted and killed with intent and purpose to silence what their photos and videos are showing and saying.
List of journalists who have been killed.
The below is of lesser note:
Best First Watches:
Angel’s Egg La belle noiseuse Centipede Horror Charley Varrick Coffy Crimson Gold...
- 1/3/2024
- by Soham Gadre
- The Film Stage
A key member of Loki‘s creative team is hitting the exit ahead of the Disney+ drama’s just-announced second season.
Executive producer and director Kate Herron, who helmed all six Season 1 episodes of Marvel’s latest standalone smash, tells Deadline that she is “not returning” for Season 2, adding, “I always planned to be just on for [Season 1]. And to be honest, Season 2 wasn’t in the… that’s something that just came out. And I’m so excited. I’m really happy to watch it as a fan next season, but I just think I’m proud of what we...
Executive producer and director Kate Herron, who helmed all six Season 1 episodes of Marvel’s latest standalone smash, tells Deadline that she is “not returning” for Season 2, adding, “I always planned to be just on for [Season 1]. And to be honest, Season 2 wasn’t in the… that’s something that just came out. And I’m so excited. I’m really happy to watch it as a fan next season, but I just think I’m proud of what we...
- 7/16/2021
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
The following story contains major spoilers about For All Mankind‘s Season 2 finale — proceed at your own peril
For All Mankind‘s Season 2 finale doubled as Michael Dorman‘s final mission aboard the acclaimed Apple TV+ drama, as his character Gordo sacrificed his life to save dozens of his colleagues. (Gordo perished alongside his soul mate/fellow American hero Tracy, played by Sarah Jones.) The tragedy capped quite the redemptive, two-season journey for Dorman’s space cadet. Below, the Patriot vet shares how he found out he was getting killed off, and reveals the “loaded discussion” that preceded his surreal final scene.
For All Mankind‘s Season 2 finale doubled as Michael Dorman‘s final mission aboard the acclaimed Apple TV+ drama, as his character Gordo sacrificed his life to save dozens of his colleagues. (Gordo perished alongside his soul mate/fellow American hero Tracy, played by Sarah Jones.) The tragedy capped quite the redemptive, two-season journey for Dorman’s space cadet. Below, the Patriot vet shares how he found out he was getting killed off, and reveals the “loaded discussion” that preceded his surreal final scene.
- 4/25/2021
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Arthur Kopit, whose 1969 Broadway play Indians was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and later adapted as the film Buffalo Bill and the Indians starring Paul Newman, died Friday in New York. He was 83.
His death was announced by spokesman Rick Miramontez. No cause of death was disclosed.
Kopit’s seven-decade stage career began when he was still a Harvard undergraduate, with his 1963 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad getting an Off Broadway production that later moved to Broadway with Jerome Robbins directing.
Indians, about the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and an early example of the era’s anti-Western genre, opened on Broadway in 1969 and starred Stacy Keach, Manu Tupou, Raul Julia and Sam Waterston, among others. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Indians was adapted by director Robert Altman in 1976 as (full title) Buffalo Bill and the Indians,...
His death was announced by spokesman Rick Miramontez. No cause of death was disclosed.
Kopit’s seven-decade stage career began when he was still a Harvard undergraduate, with his 1963 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad getting an Off Broadway production that later moved to Broadway with Jerome Robbins directing.
Indians, about the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and an early example of the era’s anti-Western genre, opened on Broadway in 1969 and starred Stacy Keach, Manu Tupou, Raul Julia and Sam Waterston, among others. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Indians was adapted by director Robert Altman in 1976 as (full title) Buffalo Bill and the Indians,...
- 4/3/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Olive Bridge Entertainment’s Will Gluck and Jodi Hildebrand are developing Constance, a magical family hybrid feature for Sony.
Based on his original idea, Onward scribe Keith Bunin is set to write the screenplay, the storyline of which is under wraps.
Gluck counts over $782M WW at the global box office, his most recent hit being Peter Rabbit which grossed over $351M WW. The sequel he directed, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, which was delayed due to Covid, is scheduled to hit theaters on June 11.
Onward, which Bunin co-wrote, was the last notable family film to debut before theaters closed down because of the pandemic last year, opening to $39.1M stateside and grossing $142M before segueing to Disney+. Additionally, Bunin just delivered a feature adaptation of Delorean, which George Clooney will direct for MGM, and an adaptation of the Edith Macefield Story, which will be directed by George C. Wolfe.
Based on his original idea, Onward scribe Keith Bunin is set to write the screenplay, the storyline of which is under wraps.
Gluck counts over $782M WW at the global box office, his most recent hit being Peter Rabbit which grossed over $351M WW. The sequel he directed, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, which was delayed due to Covid, is scheduled to hit theaters on June 11.
Onward, which Bunin co-wrote, was the last notable family film to debut before theaters closed down because of the pandemic last year, opening to $39.1M stateside and grossing $142M before segueing to Disney+. Additionally, Bunin just delivered a feature adaptation of Delorean, which George Clooney will direct for MGM, and an adaptation of the Edith Macefield Story, which will be directed by George C. Wolfe.
- 2/26/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a movie for Netflix called “End of the Road” that will see her on the run from a mysterious killer while on a road trip with her family.
Millicent Shelton, a director on “Black-ish” as well as episodes of “Insecure,” “P-Valley,” “Hunters” and “The Walking Dead,” will direct the feature “End of the Road.” David Loughery, who wrote “The Intruder” and “Obsessed,” is writing the script based on an original screenplay by Christopher Moore.
In the action-thriller “End of the Road,” Latifah stars as a recently widowed woman who, after losing her job, drives her family cross-country to start a new life. In the New Mexico desert, cut off from help, they must learn to fight back when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.
Tracey Edmonds is producing for Edmonds Entertainment, as are Mark Burg for Twisted Pictures and Brad Kaplan.
Millicent Shelton, a director on “Black-ish” as well as episodes of “Insecure,” “P-Valley,” “Hunters” and “The Walking Dead,” will direct the feature “End of the Road.” David Loughery, who wrote “The Intruder” and “Obsessed,” is writing the script based on an original screenplay by Christopher Moore.
In the action-thriller “End of the Road,” Latifah stars as a recently widowed woman who, after losing her job, drives her family cross-country to start a new life. In the New Mexico desert, cut off from help, they must learn to fight back when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.
Tracey Edmonds is producing for Edmonds Entertainment, as are Mark Burg for Twisted Pictures and Brad Kaplan.
- 12/7/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
From the visionary mind behind 2020 Oscar-winner “Parasite“, Bong Joon-Ho’s star-studded dystopian sci-fi thriller “Snowpiercer” is making its way to Blu-ray and DVD for the very first time in the UK.
Set in 2031, the entire planet is frozen and the world’s only survivors live aboard the Snowpiercer: a train that’s been hurtling around the globe for the past seventeen years. Within the carriages the remnants of the human race have formed their own divisive economic and class system.
This is all set to change when Curtis (Chris Evans) leads a group of lower-class citizens, who live in squalor at the back of the train, on a fight to the front of the Snowpiercer to share the food and wealth equally among the inhabitants. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the rebel group as they battle their way from carriage to carriage. A revolution has begun…...
Set in 2031, the entire planet is frozen and the world’s only survivors live aboard the Snowpiercer: a train that’s been hurtling around the globe for the past seventeen years. Within the carriages the remnants of the human race have formed their own divisive economic and class system.
This is all set to change when Curtis (Chris Evans) leads a group of lower-class citizens, who live in squalor at the back of the train, on a fight to the front of the Snowpiercer to share the food and wealth equally among the inhabitants. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the rebel group as they battle their way from carriage to carriage. A revolution has begun…...
- 5/19/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The 15th annual Black List survey was revealed Monday December 16, and it includes 66 un-produced screenplays from up-and-coming literary talent. Results were pooled from a survey of more than 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2019 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List.
Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.
Below is the...
Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.
Below is the...
- 12/16/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Takahisa Zeze's The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 19 – December 18, 2019 in Mubi's Luminaries series.Above: Heaven's StoryOne of the carefully hidden programming delights of Venice '19 was a showcase of current Japanese films—industry-only thus not in the general schedule. Among the new releases screened there was (The Promised Land), by Takahisa Zeze—a name a friend remembered fondly from decades ago when Zeze's early pink eiga-masterpieces like when Zeze's early pink eiga-masterpieces like Waisetsu bōsō shūdan: Kemono, Kōkyū Soap Technique 4: Monzetsu higi, Honban Les: Hazukashii taii, or Sukebe tenkomori toured the Western festival circuit as the latest in avant-garde entertainment. As she had the necessary kind of festival badge, this friend was able to enter the screening. A little over two hours later, she exited with glowing eyes wondering: “Why on earth...
- 11/29/2019
- MUBI
The rigors of the road took a toll on Drew Holcomb. Around the release of 2017’s Souvenir, the sturdy-voiced Tennessee troubadour — originally from Memphis, but now based in Nashville — was exhausted by the nonstop cycle of churning out albums, then touring relentlessly in support, and wound up hospitalized for eight days with meningitis. After a much-needed breather, he decided to ask friends for help. The result is the collaborative and restorative album Dragons.
“I was itching to create in a different way, and co-writing was a way forward out of that funk,...
“I was itching to create in a different way, and co-writing was a way forward out of that funk,...
- 10/21/2019
- by Jedd Ferris
- Rollingstone.com
It was blood sport all round on Sunday and not just that Pittsburgh Steelers win over the L.A. Chargers and the cable topping New York Yankees and Houston Astros game on Fox Sports 1. No, The Walking Dead and Succession both had sacrifices, new messy alliances and some telling ratings.
For the AMC zombie apocalypse series, the second episode of the 10th season pulled back the mask on the bloodless origins of the Whisperers.
The Greg Nicotero-directed “We Are the End of the World” was also a new series low for Twd. Slipping 7% from the previous low of last week’s Season 10 opener to a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49, Twd was in a rare second place on cable with its viewership of 3.47 million. That total set of linear eyeballs was down 13% from the October 6 “Lines We Cross” episode.
Compared to the then series low of the second episode...
For the AMC zombie apocalypse series, the second episode of the 10th season pulled back the mask on the bloodless origins of the Whisperers.
The Greg Nicotero-directed “We Are the End of the World” was also a new series low for Twd. Slipping 7% from the previous low of last week’s Season 10 opener to a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49, Twd was in a rare second place on cable with its viewership of 3.47 million. That total set of linear eyeballs was down 13% from the October 6 “Lines We Cross” episode.
Compared to the then series low of the second episode...
- 10/15/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
In the ten weeks leading up to the Season 10 premiere of The Walking Dead on Sunday, October 6 at 9pm Et/8pm Ct, AMC will reveal information on the new season across Twd social platforms – photos, videos and never-before-seen content. Today, AMC has released the latest video spot, “End of the World.” The video features new footage from season 10, with Alpha and Beta chanting their apocalyptic motto. About Season 10: The Walking Dead is a story that started 10 years ago with one man trying to find his family. That family grew and gradually communities took shape. They fought and survived, thrived and gave birth to a new generation. It is a tale of humankind and there are more stories to tell. It is now Spring, a few months after the end of Season 9, when our group of survivors dared to cross into Whisperer territory during the harsh winter. The collected communities...
- 9/13/2019
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Long Awol from Home Video — the last time I peeked it was an unwatchable pan-and-scanned laserdisc — this early Charles Band opus came at a time when the purveyor of third-class horror thrills could command a budget. A rather phenomenal list of ’70s special effects hopefuls collaborated to give the show lasting appeal, mainly by including some stop motion monsters from a parallel dimension. An average American family spends a chaotic night battling bizarre phemoneema… phelomea… stuff that’s leaked into our reality through that nuisance Sci-fi catch-all, a Time-Space Warp. A pair of big name stars twenty years past their sell-by date endure all manner of rubber critters, zipping flying saucers and green-glowing supernatural artifacts!
The Day Time Ended
Blu-ray
Full Moon Features
1979 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date May ?, 2019 / Available online through Amazon / 24.95
Starring: Jim Davis, Chris Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty, Natasha Ryan, Scott C. Kolden.
Cinematography: John...
The Day Time Ended
Blu-ray
Full Moon Features
1979 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 79 min. / Street Date May ?, 2019 / Available online through Amazon / 24.95
Starring: Jim Davis, Chris Mitchum, Dorothy Malone, Marcy Lafferty, Natasha Ryan, Scott C. Kolden.
Cinematography: John...
- 5/28/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival hasn’t included too many movie stars — yet. But festivalgoers were able to come face-to-face with zombies, Elton John singing on the beach and Robert Pattinson going full Method actor. Here are the six biggest highs and lows from the French Riviera so far.
1. Elton John Feels the Love
“Rocketman,” a musical biopic about Elton John starring Taron Egerton, received a five-minute standing ovation after its debut on May 16. The star of the film was instantly crowned an awards-season favorite for 2019; Egerton started to tear up as the crowd at the Palais showered him with applause. And there was plenty more cheering directed at John, who donned a tuxedo with a glittering brooch shaped like a rocket and the title to his famous song stitched in sparkles on the back of his jacket.
After the film ended, hundreds migrated to Carlton Beach...
1. Elton John Feels the Love
“Rocketman,” a musical biopic about Elton John starring Taron Egerton, received a five-minute standing ovation after its debut on May 16. The star of the film was instantly crowned an awards-season favorite for 2019; Egerton started to tear up as the crowd at the Palais showered him with applause. And there was plenty more cheering directed at John, who donned a tuxedo with a glittering brooch shaped like a rocket and the title to his famous song stitched in sparkles on the back of his jacket.
After the film ended, hundreds migrated to Carlton Beach...
- 5/21/2019
- by Ramin Setoodeh and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Nick Hornby has never owned a setlist, but his latest charity endeavor, Setlists For Young Voices, may change that. The project, conceived by Hornby alongside authors Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon, has collected over 100 setlists from artists like R.E.M., Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie and the Who and is auctioning them to benefit Hornby’s London-based literacy non-profit Ministry of Stories.
“I just suddenly thought of it because it’s something that fans value that actually costs nothing,” Hornby tells Rolling Stone. “Having done...
“I just suddenly thought of it because it’s something that fans value that actually costs nothing,” Hornby tells Rolling Stone. “Having done...
- 4/27/2019
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
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